Spectacle-temple.



No 827,817. PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906.

P. PEGK.

SPBOTAGLE TEMPLE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21. 1906.

WITNESSES.-

' A TTORNE Y5 [NVENTmc *oruTnn sTa iss raTnrrT enrich PETER PECK, 0F SOUTHBRIDGE, lliz'lSSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CENTRAL OPTICAL COMPANY, OF SQUTHBRIDGE, lvlASSACHUSE lQS, A CORPORA- TION OF MAINE.

SFECTAQLE TEMPLE Patented Aug. "2 1906.

Anplication filed February 21; 1908. Serial No. 302,291.

To all whm'n zit may concern.-

Be it known that 1, PETER Prion, a citizen l of the United States, residing at Southbridge, in the county of Worcester and State of Mes l sachusetts, have invented a new and useful Spectacle-Temple, of which the following is a specification.

his invention relates to spectacle-tent pies, and has for its object to provide certain new and useful improvements in the ridingincreased so as to have a relatively broad bearing around the ears of the wearer, there by to overcome the annoyance of a thin rid ingternple and to avoid stiffness of the riding-tern le by reason of its increased diank eter an to maintain the desired resilienc for convenience in applyin the temple and removing the sanie from t is ears of the wearer.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be l hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and narticularly pointed out 1n the appended cl aims, i being understood that changes in the form, pro ortion, size, and minor details may be ma e within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a spectacle-temple embodying the features of the present invention. Fig. .2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a iortion of the temple, partly in. elevation ant partly in section, with the coiled elements thereof partly uncoiled.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in both the figures of the drawings. l

The temple-wire 1 is resilient and is shown in Fig. 2 as tapered rearwardly at its rear l end portion This tapered portion of the 1 temple-wire is thrust snugly into a tube 2, which is formed of foul-strands of ilat wire 3, which are tightly coiled to form a tube, the forward end of which is soldered, brazed, or otherwise rigidly connected to the temple. The wire strands 3 are pliable rather than elastic.

Around the wire tube is spirally wrapped a gold wire 4, which is soldered or brazed to the temple-wire at the forward end. of the temple, whereby the diameter of the latter is tube 2, the connection between the templewire and the'five other wires being "finished in such a manner as to avoid any sharp proipctions upon the temple. After the wire 4c as been wrapped upon the device to form a sheath therefor the wrapped portion of the temple is passed between suitable pressurerolls, so as to flatten the outer portions of the coils and mash the sides of the coils snugly against one another so as to present a smooth substantially continuous outer surface upon the sheath. A su'table ball or knob 5 is soldered, brazed, or otherwise connected to the free end of the temple, so as to form the desired finish therefor. After the temple has been finished, so far as the outer wrapping 4 is concerned, the temple is strai ht, as indicated in Fig. 2, and then it is isn't any suitable manner into an approximately se1nicircular shape in the usual manner, thepliable inner tube 2 being strong enough topar tially overcome the resiliency of the teinplewire and the external wrapping, so as to maintain the bowed shape given to the noun lo and at the same time to permit a reasonable degree of resiliency imparted thereto by the temple-wire and the outer wrapping.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A spectacle-temple comprising a tem pie-wire, and a plurality o l pliable wires wrapped in spiral form around the templewire and terminally secured thereto, the pliable wires being strong enough to partially and the pliable wire being strong enough to maintain the shape of the riding-temple without entirely overcoming the resiliency of the temple-wire.

3. A. speotacleteinple comprising a resili-- ent ten1plc-wire, a wrapping thereon of pliable wire, and an external sheath of non-corrosive wire wrapped upon the pliablewire, the wrapped portion of the wire being bent outer. surface.

into substantially semicircular form to coni In testimony that/I claim the foregoing as stitut'e a riding-temple, the pliable Wire be my own I have hereto eflixed my signature ing strong enou h to partially overcome the in the presence of two Witnesses.

resiliency of tie temple-wire, and the PETER PECK. wrapped portion of the device having its Witnesses:

coils externally flattened to form a smooth J. F. LARIVIEN,

ALEX J. PAQUIN. 

